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Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Farmer
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Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
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When you take away the subsistence economy, then your farm population is seriously exposed to the vagaries of the larger economy. As it used to be, the subsistence economy carried people through the hard times, and what you might call the housewife's economy of cream and eggs often held these farms and their families together.
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There’s nothing under the ground that’s worth more than the little layer of topsoil sitting on top of it.
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The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
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Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.
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People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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There are no unsacred places there are only sacred places and desecrated places.
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Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly assumed, that we may be adequately represented by money. The giving of money has thus become our characteristic virtue. But to give is not to do. The money is given in lieu of action, thought, care, time.
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To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark.
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Education in the true sense, of course, is an enablement to serve-both the living human community in its natural household or neighborhood and the precious cultural possessions that the living community inherits or should inherit.
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If you start a conversation with the assumption that you are right or that you must win, obviously it is difficult to talk.
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We know enough of our own history by now to be aware that people exploit what they have merely concluded to be of value, but they defend what they love. To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.
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Hunger is a powerful persuader if it happens, and it's conceivable that it could happen. Country people have always known this.
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Our most serious problem, perhaps, is that we have become a nation of fantasists. We believe, apparently, in the infinite availability of finite resources.
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Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.
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A sustainable agriculture is one which depletes neither the people nor the land.
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The world is whole beyond human knowing.
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We don't have a right to ask whether we're going to succeed or not. The only question we have a right to ask is what's the right thing to do? What does this earth require of us if we want to continue to live on it?
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The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.
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One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener's own body. A garden gives the body the dignity of working in its own support. It is a way of rejoining the human race.
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